Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-17
miscellaneous.

PATENTS issued to Kansas inventors No
vember s: William R. Archer, of Green,
sulky harrow: Charles w. Hale, of Eureka,
wrench; Lafayette B. Hopkins, of Coun-
Gil Grove, bedstead fastener; 10 Shaw,
OF Conway, cane or corn harvester.
THE official analysis of the Hutchinson
salt gave chloride of sodium SO. a., with no
trace of magnessia. The contractors and
drillers made affidavit TO passing through
300 feet of pure rock salt, enc vein alone
being over 1913 feet thick This Is the
purest salt and the thickest veins in the
United States.
COLONEL N. S. Goss, State Ornithologist,
has gone on an extended professional tour
through Lower California and along the
western coast of Mexico, and VIII be absent
fbr several months.
THE name of the post Office hitherto
known as Plummer, Scott County, has been
changed to Modoc
PENSIONS were granted the follow ing
Kansans on the ID: Leander Jones, of
Lyons; Ephraim Haney, of Scandal; AL
bert d. Fuller, of Slate; Peter Crowen, of
Leroy; George 81. Campbell, of Lindsay !;
John F. Amrine, of Jewell; Charles B. Rey-
nolds, OF Morantown; William Gemmell, Of
Council Grove; Isaac n. w. Mahaffey, of
Burr Oak: Grin Merryfield, of Downs, and
Samuel P, HOage, of White Rock.
NORRIS, 4 colored barber of Leaven-
worth, recently committed suicide by TAX
ing laudanum. He had been much de-
pressed in spirits for some time and had
threatened to end his existence. He leaves
a wife and four children. His wife is a
teacher in the South Leavenworth colored
school. He had been out of work for some
time.
THE Topeka Sorghum Sugar Manufacture.
ing Company was organized recently by
the election of the following officers: Prest
dent, George w. Watson; vice-president,
H n. Castle; secretary, 7. P. Rodgers;
treasurer, p. /. Bonebrake. The capita al
stock of the company is $4,000.
CHARLES HAGGART, the eleven-year-old
son of Captain Haggart, of Topeka, met
with a terrible death the other evening.
The little boy was sent out after the COW.
About shutdown the cow arrived at Hag-
CARTS home, and his little son was found
in a most frightful condition. He had tied
the cows rope around his wrist and the
cow had run away with him, dragging
him to death. the rope was still around
his wrist.
COUNTY seat wars in Kansas will soon
die out for the want of material to feed
upon.
THE charter of the Kansas City & Sabine
Pass Coal Company, capital stock, $780,
OOO was filed in the Office of the Secretary
of State the other day. Its business will
and Louisiana, along the line of the Kan
sas City & Sabine Pass railway, and will
comprise the coal and iron works of the
last named organization. The new COM
pany is now building extensive iron and
steel works, and will soon begin the cree
ton of other similar plants. The principal
Office of the company will be located at
Kansas City.
The Governor has issued a proclamation
raising the quarantine against the Chicago
stock yards.
Mrs. CLIFFORD, the wife of David Clifford,
a Santa Fee conductor living at Newton,
eloped the other night with g. w. Howard,
her husbands head brakeman, taking
hack and driving TO Peabody. The deserted
husband pursued and overlook the pair and
after recovering few valuables that the
recreant wife had carried of returned
home and let the runaways go.
KANSAS has State University which cost
$3.50 OOO a State Agricultural College which
cost S2l3 900 and a State Normal School
which cost S6S, 900. and each of them have
an average of about 500 students.
AN officer of the Missouri Pacific road i
credited with the statement that in all
probability there will be no further prose
cution of the cases against the six men
arrested for the wreck of freight train
near Wyandotte during the strike in the
spring of 1856
1T is announced that the Missouri Pacific
will reduce its force nearly one-half IN
Atchison for the coming winter.
OTTO HARTIG, a farmer residing at Pierce
vile, Finney County, committed suicide the
other evening by hanging himself
THE Supreme Court recently rendered
decision in the county seat contest in Pratt
County affirming the decision of the dis
trict court, which perpetually enJolned the
canvass of the election held in that county
October 1, 1885 This leaves the county
seat at Iuka.
I PENSIONS granted Kansans on the 4th:
Elizabeth Kelley, of Leavenworth; George
w. Turner, OF Milan; Charles R Morrill,, Of
Hone: David<Smid, of carlton; Samuel f.
Gould of Mulvane; Thompson Mccullough,
of Emporia; Thomas McNeT, OF Oswego;
Freeman I. Garrison, of Mirage; Harrison
Was hburn, of Kirwin; George W. Race. of
IUoodston; Amos Root, of Carlton: Stephen
johnson, of Chautauqua; and James H
Quiet, of Osawakee.
GEORGE SLOAN was recently arrested at
Topeka and taken back to Keosauqua,
Iowa. where he is wanted for burglary.
Young Sloan is a printer, and his father
one OF the most reputable citizens OF Van
Buren, County, Iowa, where he has held
many effices of public trust
FATTEN the turkey.
EARLY the other morning Burlington &
Missouri passenger train ran into freight
train at Bremen. twelve miles from Atchl-
son. and badly scalded five graders sleep
ing in the caboose. One OF them, John
Wroth, died few hours after the accident
| and Willard Robinson was fatally scalded-
The others were seriously injured The
| accident was reported to be the fault OF
Conductor Cavanaugh, of the freight train,
who was taking the ''cannon balls" time
Cavsnaugh skipped.
IT is stated that a company of Pennsyl-
vania capitalists has been organized for the
purpose of developing the Hutchinson
great salt ind
MORE than one-third of the convicts IN
the State penitentiary are said to have
! been inmates of other penal institutions.